[Volker]

After a long, awkward silence, bnc begins to stir.

"Woah...", she summarizes the events of the past ten minutes.
"Well ... I guess it's time for me to do what I can do best.
First, anyone wounded?
Second, intel."

After you knew her a while, you can see without doubt, that she hasn't really recovered. She's distracted herself with business to avoid other, more comfortable distraction. On the other side, you know she's damn good in distracting herself, so you guess she can hold on for a while longer before her next breakdown.

Addiction test: 13d6t5 7
Could you summarize what we have she could exploit?

• Wounded people she could fix up.
• drones with intact hard drives where I might be able to extract... well, anything.
  
• commlinks
• other stuff I didn't think of right now but are apparent

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[SquirrelDude]

Slobbertooth raised his hand. "I got the wind knocked out of me by some bullets earlier, so I'd appreciate the helping hand.

"Look at me. I learned my lesson."

Slobbertooth currently has 4 stun boxes filled

[Jack_Spade]

Careful investigation of the remains turned up one semi-functional NIxdorf Secretar, two intact Ingram Smartguns and the one drone Torrent had only electrocuted without turning it into fireworks.

Scary was rubbing his head and turned to Sunkid: "I thought this was a safe place to haul up?"
"Ay, safe-ish at least. Seems as if them shades' gone tame since I's been 'ere last. But you's seen them bastards. They's was slow and bad shots. Except the first one. That's seemed to be quite at 'ome. Fire spirit I's guess. Probably 'ad one of thems looking for us."
Scary yawned: "Well fuck me sideways with a garden shovel. We probably should have geeked them at the harbor when we had the chance."
"Maybe, but them's possessing spirit would'a been lots more dangerous outside this garage. So cheer up - we's alive them ain't."

Scary only grunted at that and began reloading his gun. He turned to the team: "What do you say: Should we stay for round two or look for another hideout?"

[SquirrelDude]

Slobbertooth shrugged, "I don't exactly know where else we would go besides trying to pile in as many people that we could into the van and driving somewhere out of the way."

He chuckled at the implication
"Yes, let's all get in a van and sleep down by the river."

[Volker]

First Aid: 13d6t5 4
He has no longer ;-) I'd love to watch this kid in RL...

bnc grins. "Oh did you, kempai. How comes I didn't offer any help to you before? Ever sorry, sensei."

bnc pushes him (in a more symbolic than actually pushy way) into a sitting or lying position and, almost in passing, applies some baisc medication. She pinches him here and there to improve the blood flow. Or so she says.

After that, bnc plugs herself into the drone and tries what she can find out in the programming. (Well, actually she first steals one of the guns and then plugs herself in.) Maybe there are any records on what the drone's purpose is. If she's lucky, she might find some camera records that makes it easier to trace their origins back, or maybe even a link or mark to some commlink or another.

There should be commlinks, too, I assume. The fallen attackers. Are there not? How dead are they, by the way. Can bnc prevent them from dying or even wake them up for interrogation?

[Jack_Spade]

bnc soon learned that high voltage electro shocks will fry sensitive electronics pretty seriously. Without a few hours with a hardware tool kit the drone wouldn't even be able to power the little green light to show it had power.

Looking at the gruesome remains she was quickly dissuaded: The shades had rended and destroyed the bodies of their erstwhile enemies with amazing thoroughness. Beside the one commlink, the weapons and the drone nothing else had survived the fury of the dead.

The Nixdorf Secretary Commlink finally did contain some helpful stuff. It took bnc two tries and one reboot to hack it´s defenses, but finally the level 3 agent on the device did cease to resist:

The link had belonged to one Kane Woo. He had been the forth member and was the controller of the two drones. A quick search through his files showed that he had been in Feng´s restaurant six hours earlier and was also at the harbor with the others trying to break into a container full of potatoes.

Records showed that he had only recently been made into a foot soldier for the Triads - and only two days ago he had been forced to endure a ritual that prepared him as a vessel for a spirit of air. Beside the ritual he didn't seem to have been in contact with the two mages - but considering he had had a spirit implanted they probably didn't need any electronic communications.

But one thing was sure: The thugs had not recovered their employers stash.

[Sabato Kuroi]

Assuming bnc informs the others.If not, I'll edit my post


"I agree with Slobbertooth.We should get in the van and find some place else.Who's to say the twins won't send more spirits after us?"

[SgtBoomCloud]

"If they haven't already..."  Krestov was already hand-reloading his Crusader's clip before depositing it back into it's resting place on his body before glancing around.  He had to admit, the display of the dark spirits rending the dead shook him up a bit.  There's more to Sunkid than we see...  Shrugging it off, the troll straightened up before giving a nod.

"Agreed, moving target harder tracking.  Let us go.  Maybe can do something revive Spice?"  He gestured over to the unconscious target of their efforts before starting to load up the gear.  While doing so, his sky blue's made contact with the youngest member of the team, his expression denoting his unease of the situation...but not any lack of resolve.

[SquirrelDude]

Slobbertooth blinked. He hadn't expected his plan of sleeping in a van down by the river to be so popular. "Well, alright then. Let's load 'er up and get out of here."

[Jack_Spade]

And so the team gathered up all supplies, loaded the van and got out of the garage as fast as possible.
All in all it became pretty cozy in a hurry. Scary and Sunkid seemed to have no problem sleeping in close proximity - asked about it Scary just shrugged and mumbled something about sleeping in a small submarine for five weeks.

Their parking place close to one of the dirtiest waste processing plants made sure that only the most desperate or toxic spirit would be willing to come near them. Although Slobbertooth suspected that the filters in their car would need replacing after this night. 



Murphy's Laws of Combat: 46. If you can't remember, the Claymore is pointed towards you.

Seattle, Tacoma, May 6th, evening

It was early evening, just a few hours before their meeting with  Tanja Vashnopoya. The team had found a small coffin hotel where they could fresh up and make themselves presentable. Scary used the time to prepare a few infos on Vashnopoya's lair:

"...and here you see the front of the building. Used to be an apartment block, but one of the renters experimented with explosives and blew up himself and half of the back of the building. It was never really repaired. Instead some genius thought they could sand it down and put some kind of Transpex over the damaged side. Makes for a very confusing layout in the upper stories but you have a good view of the yard.
Her offices are at the top floor, next to the elevator. We'll have to check our weapons at base level before we are allowed up. Pistols should be no problem though, Benny her security guy is a homophobe, so he never gets to close to the crotch area with his pat downs - unless you are a girl. Sorry bnc."

[Volker]

bnc quickly fixes Scary Spice up in the car, then allows herself a dose of Whoom to relax a bit.

The coffin hotel

"It's no real issue. I don't need weapons anyway. But if this prick comes too close to my crotch area, he's in trouble with or without weapons."

"So, what's the plan now? Find the stuff, get outta hear and leave Scary and the Sunkid to Lung Feng? Or do we deal with the Triads? Is there any protocol for a situation like this? Man, why is it always magicians..."

[SquirrelDude]

Slobbertooth pondered whether the HK Urban Combat's built in anti-detection software would be enough to overcome the doorman if he was clever in how he hid it, while reactivating his Adept powers now that they were out of the parking garage and away from the background count. He was glad to be back to his full ability, but he didn't want to be limited inside the base only a pistol.

He took some time to answer bnc's question.
"I always make sure that the people who are paying you get out alive, so that I can hold them accountable when something goes wrong with the payment.

"Also someone keep and eye on the Sunkid. He's clearly more than an old metahuman."

[Sabato Kuroi]

@team : << "If Scary and the Sunkid need further protection from the Triads  they should add  a bonus to our payment. In any case Krestov could always renegotiate the terms of our agreement if the job parameters seem to change.>>


Torrent turned his attention back to the building layout, trying to find weak spots and exit points.
Architecture Knowledge: 4d6t5 0
nice...please don't trust anything Torrent has to say about the building

[SquirrelDude]

"So you got anything to tell us about that building layout, Torrent?"

[Volker]

bnc takes a rest. Unless something happens, she's ready to go to Tanja as soon as possible.

That means: Feel free to fast-forward.